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The article describes an online expository writing experience designed to help preservice language arts teachers develop descriptive writing skills. The teachers were asked to describe a target picture within a picture, and their cohorts had to correctly identify the picture, and offer feedback. Teachers' descriptive skills were to improve over time.
Published: 2007
Updated: Mar. 24, 2008
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Two teacher educators collaborated on a project, facilitating the use of technology for English as Second Language students. Preservice teachers were asked to integrate teaching and technology and to design learning with digital media.
Published: 2007
Updated: Mar. 24, 2008
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The article explores the development of Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) and its influence on global education. The authors describe the ADL initiative and its implication for K-12 education and call educators to provide the anytime, anywhere education to more students.
Published: 2007
Updated: Mar. 23, 2008
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The article describes the conditions in which information and communication technology (ICT) may be advantageous over alternative tools of illustration. The main focus is the importance of context to the learning activity in which the teacher plays an important part.
Published: 2007
Updated: Mar. 14, 2008
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The article describes a case study designed to explore the use of student teachers as agents for both preservice teachers and inservice teachers' professional development associated with educational technology. The study examined to what extent preservice teachers can implement a technology-rich curriculum, and to what extend they can facilitate their mentors' acquisition of those skills. Results indicate preservice teachers can stimulate the integration of technology-rich innovations in their mentor teachers.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 26, 2008
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The article describes an examination of the relationship between preservice teachers' beliefs and attitudes towards educational technology and teacher educators' beliefs and uses of technology. Although no significant relationship was found between teacher educators’ technology uses and preservice teachers’ technology attitudes, taking an introductory educational technology course was found to be helpful in improving preservice teachers’ technology attitudes related to educational benefits.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 26, 2008
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A self-study into the integration of instructional technology into science teaching included reflections and self-inquiry. Elementary science methods students participated in a series of inquiry-based activities that utilized various instructional technologies Findings of the self study revealed that the teacher's own reflections and documentation influenced and paralleled her students' development of learning how to teach scientific inquiry using instructional technology.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 17, 2008
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A study was conducted to examine factors that influence teachers' technology integration, as they create technology-enhanced materials. Although all teachers received onsite peer mentoring, results of the study indicate that teachers who succeeded in designing technology-based materials interacted differently from their peers. Those teachers assumed greater ownership in learning and interacted frequently to obtain support and advance their development. Peer mentoring also influenced both the interaction among peers and quality of teacher growth in the community.
Published: 2008
Updated: Feb. 12, 2008
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The article describes a study which combined science content and pedagogy with video game design in a graduate science education course. The distance education course was designed for inservice science teachers, with the objective of advancing student achievement and interest in science by integrating video game technology into the curriculum. Results revealed positive student attitudes toward the course satisfaction.
Published: 2008
Updated: Feb. 12, 2008
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A study was conducted to examine preservice teachers' pedagogical beliefs toward technology, compared to those held by teacher educators. Results reveal that at the semester's end, preservice teachers' nonlearner-centered beliefs about learning and teaching decreased. However, their nonlearner-centered beliefs about learners increased. Furthermore, taking an introductory educational technology course was found to be helpful in improving preservice teachers’ technology attitudes related to educational benefits.
Published: 2008
Updated: Feb. 12, 2008